Volume 1 The Land of Yama Chapter 15 Choice
I shouted to Dorjee to show him the skull of the animal nailed to the ground, and asked him if there was any special meaning to this.
Only then did Dorjee be a little surprised at first sight, his expression seemed to be very unnatural, and he told me: "This is left by poachers to indicate the distribution of animals. Every year, many poachers enter the mountains to hunt antelopes, argali, snowcocks, and even brown bears and snow leopards. ”
I heard Cairang Dorjee's words and nodded, and he continued: "Poachers generally don't attack people, but be careful of being injured by mistake. Anyway, be careful, but that's okay, I know you have guns, too. With that, he let Dorjee take my shoulders and continue to walk towards the canyon.
I don't know why, I don't really believe his words, I always feel that he has something to hide in this matter, but I can't think of a reason for him to hide it, is he going to rob us here? It seems unlikely, there are four of us and there are guns, and he only has one man. For a while, I couldn't figure it out, so I could only move on with him.
After entering the canyon, the wind was indeed much lighter, and after walking for five or six hours from morning to now, everyone felt hungry, and everyone sat in the corner of a stone wall to rest and eat something.
After recovering some strength, I looked around, the white snow along the mountain, under the blue sky, like the white waves on the sea, the bare mountain, like the black reef, the beautiful landscape made me can't help but admire the charm of nature, but also forgot the difficulties in the wind and snow just now, the desire to explore is spontaneous again, this is really a contradictory and tangled feeling!
"It's so cold! If only I could make a fire! Lantern Xiao said while munching on a piece of beef jerky.
"That's a good idea." I looked around for any dead wood or branches, but I looked around and found only a handful of hay.
Lantern Xiao held a lighter and looked helplessly at a handful of hay in my hand, "Brother Ran, you are teasing me!" The two grasses you are looking for have not yet warmed up the fires with lighters! ”
"Don't stand and talk, don't have a backache, look for yourself, you look all over the mountains, how can there be ......" Before I finished speaking, I was attracted by the situation above, only to see a dark gray cloud in the depths of the canyon spread outward at a speed visible to the naked eye, and with the increase of the gray cloud area, its thickness is also increasing, and gradually the gray cloud becomes a black cloud, rolling swept in, the sky suddenly darkened, and the wind increased suddenly, as if a pair of big hands slowly covered the main canyon with a black cloth.
The others noticed the anomaly as well, and all looked up. It's a spectacular scene, comparable to a Hollywood disaster movie, and I have a vague feeling in my heart that this may not be a comparable problem, but maybe it will be a disaster.
"What's going on! It's been a change! Kong Xue looked up at the black cloud and said a little nervously.
"Oops! Oh, my God! Only then did Dorjee murmur, and then shouted at us: "The blizzard is coming!" Fast! Head inside the canyon and look for a place to hide from the wind and snow! Fast! Fast!! ”
We realized the seriousness of the matter, and hurriedly packed up our things, and followed before Dorjee took refuge in the depths of the canyon, "Damn! This day is a change! A little thought...... "Halfway through Lantern Xiao's words, the wind poured into his mouth, blowing the second half of his words back into his stomach, choking him and coughing.
"Haha, Lantern Festival, you call it not good at home, go out and be windy!" As we spoke, we hurriedly put on our windshield masks and goggles.
As we walked inward along the canyon, the wind and snow were getting heavier and heavier, the biting cold wind mixed with large snowflakes, and then rolled up the snow on the ground, and there were snowflakes all over the sky, even though I was wearing goggles, it was still difficult to see the road ahead, and I felt like I had fallen into a bucket full of goose feathers.
There were a few dead trees halfway up the mountain, and under the shaking of the strong wind, with a few "clicks", some branches were broken, rolled down the mountain, and almost hit Kong Xue's body, so frightened that she exclaimed in surprise and hid behind us.
The cold wind whistled incessantly, hitting the mountain walls on both sides, and the direction of the wind was erratic, blowing us staggered, blowing the already thin oxygen even thinner, and we were all a little out of breath. The howl of the wind was very miserable, like some kind of wail, and I couldn't help but feel uneasy in my heart.
We couldn't tell the direction and the route, but fortunately there was no second road in the canyon, we only needed to go in one direction, as we went deeper, it seemed that the wind was a little lighter, and we were able to see the direction clearly, but at this time, a choice was placed in front of us, and we came to a fork in the road.
This fork in the road divides into two directions, with a path going up the canyon and a trail continuing down the other canyon. We disagree on which path to take.
Only then did Dorjee say: "We should go up this canyon, and at the end of the canyon there may be a cave smashed by hunters or herb pickers, where we can hide from the wind and snow!" ”
"Possibly? What if there isn't? Lantern Xiao disagreed, "The further you go, the heavier the wind and snow, and if there is no cave at the end of the canyon, we will all freeze into popsicles!" I don't want to take that risk, I think we should keep going, the wind and snow will get smaller and smaller, and I think there is a greater possibility of a cave down there! ”
"No way!" Only then did Dorjee wave his hand again and again, "The wind and snow are so big, there will be more and more snow, and it may cause an avalanche!" If it's down there, you're going to die! And ......" made Dorjee look at the dark path, because he didn't bring goggles, so I could clearly see his eyes, so that Dorjee's eyes were full of doubt and a hint of fear, "And I have never walked this path, and even said, I have never seen this path, I don't know where this path leads!" ”
"You haven't walked it, it's not easy to take it, maybe it's a shortcut, it's all uncertain, I want to take my life into my own hands, even if it's a dead end, I don't regret what I chose!" Lantern Xiao turned to us and said, "What do you think? ”
"Holy! At the critical moment, what this kid said at the Lantern Festival still has some truth. "I feel in my heart that Lantern Festival is not the rich second generation who seems to be so hanging, he has his own opinions and principles on many things.
The point is that after I received a text message from my second uncle, I felt that the person I trusted the most was Lantern Festival.
"I asked Dorjee to be the guide I hired, so I had no reason not to listen to his advice, so I chose to continue up along the canyon." Kong Xue made her position clear. Shi Tao nodded apologetically at Lantern Xiao and stood beside Kong Xue, his choice was not surprising to us, the subordination made him have to make such a choice.
So everyone's eyes were focused on me, I looked at Kong Xue and then at Lantern Xiao, and smiled lightly, "I believe in my brother!" I went down the path with Lantern Festival! Life and death! I admit it! ”
When Lantern Xiao heard this, he pulled down his goggles and looked at me fixedly, his eyes were moist, and I hammered his shoulder, "Okay!" Watch out for ice in your eyes! ”
Lantern Xiao smiled and raised her hand, and our hands hit each other hard. At this moment, my blood is boiling!
Kong Xue heard my choice, Huo Ran turned her head and looked straight at me, she was wearing goggles, I couldn't see her eyes, but I guessed she must be staring at me, she said: "I didn't expect you...." If you don't follow us, you'll die a miserable death! ”
"Yes, yes!" Only then did Dorjee echo beside him, "You will definitely die!" ”
When Lantern Xiao heard this, he "cut" and turned his head to look at the sky, as if he was too lazy to talk nonsense with them anymore.
Actually, I don't know exactly why, from the moment I entered the canyon, I had a kind of distrust of Cairang Dorjee, I looked at Cairang Dorjee, and said to Kong Xue: "You follow the guide, maybe you will die faster!" ”
"You ......" Kong Xue had to retort again.
Suddenly, Lantern Xiao, who was watching the sky, pointed to the distance and shouted, "Look at it!" What is that!! ”